Create your own at Storyboard ThatDella talking to Jim about Christmas Della going to the hair/barber shop This a example of setting because it is a day before Christmas. It affects the plot because were they are so poor they don't even have enough money to afford each other a Christmas present. This is a example of setting because she is going to the hair place to cut her hair to sell it. This effects the plot because she is selling her most prized possession for a Christmas present and the she finds out she should have not sold it later on. This is a example of setting because she is at a store. This affects the plot because she finds out that the present she gets for Jim is for his watch but later on he sell's his watch the buy her combs. And the next day would be Christmas. (pg #99) Where she stopped the sign read: Mme, sofronie. Hair goods of all kinds. She was ransacking the store for Jim's present (pg #101)